Here come the labels. “Barack Hussein Obama opened his second term on Monday with an assertive inaugural address that offered a robust articulation of modern liberalism in America,” wrote Peter Baker for the New York…

President Barack Obama started paragraphs with three words, “We, the people,” time after time in his second inaugural speech Monday.It was a call to the nation’s Republicans to set aside partisanship and work with the…

A little potpourri:I listened to a few minutes of Sean Hannity’s show on Fox Radio Wednesday and, predictably, he was railing about President Obama’s efforts to curb gun violence.Nothing the president said — all of…

Applying how we run our personal households to how the state should manage its budget sounds good. After all, we both have to live within our means.Trouble is, it doesn’t work; for a number of…

Gov. Sam Brownback dealt with the looming state budget deficit with two proposals in his budget message. First, he would keep the state sales tax at 6.3 percent rather than let it drop by almost…

THE PRESIDENT’S re-election strengthens him. While he must always keep in mind how his decisions will affect the standing of the Democratic Party with the public, he is serving his last term and need not…

President Obama may start using his very substantial powers as chief executive to achieve some of his policy goals. He already has announced he won’t negotiate with the Republican-led House over raising the debt limit.…

Lance Armstrong was everybody’s hero. He started competing as a triathlete at the age of 16 and became a national sprint course triathlon champion in 1989 and 1990. He began his career as a professional…

While there was a lot of fluff in Gov. Sam Brownback’s State of the State address Tuesday night, the solid stuff was hard as rocks.— With the state facing a $267 million deficit in the…

With a court ruling requiring the Legislature to increase K-12 funding by $480 million a year staring them in the face, some lawmakers want to amend the constitution instead.It is the constitutional requirement that the…